Must-Have Ingredients for SMB Servers

“SMB customers buy solutions. They don’t buy hardware,” says Intel Corp.’s David L. Brown. “They just want their business problems to be dealt with in an automated fashion, and that’s why software is equally as important as the hardware.”

Brown, general manager of channel server products and marketing director of the company’s data center group in Hillsboro, Ore., elaborates on this assertion and talks about the most important ingredients for an SMB server in a conversation with...